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Jerome Bettis scammed the Steelers

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    • Pittsburgh Steelers, National Football League - CBS Sports.com

    Bettis said he faked injury situation so Steelers wouldn't cut him

    Aug. 22, 2007
    CBSSports.com wire reports
    PITTSBURGH -- Jerome Bettis, the No. 5 rusher in NFL history, claims in a new book that he faked a knee injury during training camp in 2000 so the Pittsburgh Steelers wouldn't cut him and install Richard Huntley as the starter

    Bettis was worried offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride favored Huntley over him and the Steelers were ready to let Bettis go, partly so they wouldn't have to give him a new contract. Huntley had just signed a $4 million, three-year deal.
    "Man, did I do a nice job of acting," Bettis wrote in the book, The Bus: My Life in and Out of a Helmet. "The thing is, I wasn't faking that I had an injury. I was just faking that the injury happened on that short-yardage play. I had to fool the coaches and the team's medical department into thinking the injury had occurred on that play. Otherwise, the Steelers would have had their reason to cut me and my salary."
     
    Golic talked about this today. Teams can't cut a player while he's injured.

    He said one year he got a slight tear in one knee early in the season with Miami. He played the whole year on it, aggravating it somewhat, and then had surgery in January. When mini-camp came around, while he's getting his physical, they ask how the knee's coming along, and he says "It's getting better, I'dm ready to test it on the field", and they say "OK, then sign this and you pass your physical and are cleared to play."

    He signed it, and the team had somebody waiting for him outside the room - they walked him upstairs, into an office and said he was cut. He saw some other names on the list (upside-down on the desk), and he said he ran down to the locker room telling those guys not to sign anything if they had any type of injury.

    That really shows the business side of the NFL.
     
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    I'm sure things like that happen a lot more than we realize. In this particular case, it appears that it worked out for both sides for the best.
     
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    BB73;909675; said:
    Golic talked about this today. Teams can't cut a player while he's injured.

    He said one year he got a slight tear in one knee early in the season with Miami. He played the whole year on it, aggravating it somewhat, and then had surgery in January. When mini-camp came around, while he's getting his physical, they ask how the knee's coming along, and he says "It's getting better, I'dm ready to test it on the field", and they say "OK, then sign this and you pass your physical and are cleared to play."

    He signed it, and the team had somebody waiting for him outside the room - they walked him upstairs, into an office and said he was cut. He saw some other names on the list (upside-down on the desk), and he said he ran down to the locker room telling those guys not to sign anything if they had any type of injury.

    That really shows the business side of the NFL.
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    i dont understand this part as the Falcons Cut Doug Datish mainly because he couldnt do the "job" because of an injury he suffered.

    If he wasnt injured i would be money on it that datish wouldnt have gotten cut.
     
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    Ginn4Heisman;909825; said:
    i dont understand this part as the Falcons Cut Doug Datish mainly because he couldnt do the "job" because of an injury he suffered.

    If he wasnt injured i would be money on it that datish wouldnt have gotten cut.
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    Well you can cut a player if they are injured, but you have to come up with a settlement of how much money you are going to pay them first.
     
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    Nice to know you're doing your research!

    Ginn4Heisman;911065; said:
    i just read on the falcons message board that they had to cut him to place him on the IR, some wierd rule. They did the same thing with DJ Shockley, not sure why, but thats what people were saying.
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    :biggrin:

    Nuh-Tee
     
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    I imagine the rules are that way so a team doesn't put 10 or 20 guys on IR in order to keep them away from everyone else but not count against their active roster. If they are cut first, I imagine someone else could pick them up before they go on IR...or something like that.
     
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